The Draft Horse . To The Berkshire World : —Yours of the 7 th received , asking me to give you some of my experiences in breeding and raising draft horses . I commenced breeding draft horses some twenty-five years ago . My foundations were one pure bred and one grade Clydesdale mares . I first bred both to the best Clydesdale stallion that was in my reach , regardless of cost of service fee , and I have kept on breeding with one object in view : that is , to try to breed the best Clydesdale horses that have ever been produced . I am still , perhaps , a long way from the top , but I have had some success at least . From the old grade mare I have produced four colts good enough to win money at the 1906 International Stock Show at Chicago . ( See Breeders Gazette , Dec . 12 th , 1906 ) . My idea of a draft horse is that he should weigh not less than eighteen hundred pounds , and more is better . He should have good large feet with l arge , round hoof heads , hoofs tough and elastic . H...

About the Eversons One of the oldest Berkshire breeders in this country , and perhaps the oldest Berkshire breeder in Ohio , is I . Everson , Wellington , Ohio . Mr . Everson has been so long before the Berkshire public that he needs no further introduction . In his declining years he has turned the Berkshire herd over to his sons and the firm is now known as Everson Bros ., Wellington , Ohio . There are several boys in the family and all of them are interested in Berkshires . They live on the home place , a nice farm of sevral hundred acres , and are breeding some extra good hogs . At the head of the herd is Premier Masterpiece 3 rd 87943 , a son of Lord Lee and out of Handsome Duchess 3 rd , one of the great litter of pigs sired by Masterpiece and out of Duchess 4 th that is mentioned in this issue in the article on Masterpiece . Handsome Duchess 3 rd was one of the best sows of this litter and a litter mate of King Tom and Cock Robin . She was mated with Lord Lee while owned by T...

A Pair of Fine Ones we recently shipped a fine pair of bred sows to Mr . N . F . Handle at Mechanicsburg , Ohio . Both of these sows were sired by our Kinloch Rival 115048 , son of Lord Premier s Rival . One we bred to Duke s Masterpiece Maximus 121000 , our young herd-boar , one of the best sons of Masterpiece 77000 , out of a daughter of Baron Duke 50 th , and the other we bred to Premier Lees Competitor 116021 , a half-brother to the $ 1 , 500 Premiers Wonder . We predict Mr . Handle will be heard from , with some good stock , in another year . The sows were purchased on mail order , and Mr . Handle had never inspected our herd , relying wholly upon our representations . He writes as foll ows : Mr . Lippincott , Lima , Ohio . Dear Sir : —We received the gilts last Thursday noon . They were in gcod shape , and we were very much pleased with them . What seems so good to us , they are industrious and plucky , and in good shape every way . Every one that has seen them thinks they are...

An Old Friend on a New Farm Berkshire breeders will remember H . T . Morgan , formerly manager of Aldoro Farm , Rpsston , Pa ., and the wonderful 1 show record that he made for Aldoro Farm at the State Fairs in 1907 . Mr . Morgan is now manager at Sheffield Farm , Glendalo , Ohio . This farm is the property of W . Kesley Schoepf , the Cincinnati Traction Magnate , and will soon be one of the noted stock farms of the country . At the head of the Sheffield Farm herd of Berkshires is the State Fair winning son of Masterpiece , Longfellow Masterpiece , formerly known as Ravenwood Masterpiece . An extremely smooth boar and a good breeder . The sows in the herd are the very best that money could buy . Daughters of Masterpiece , Longfellow Premier C , Grand Master 3 rd , Masterpiece Climax and Majestic Baron . This is not a large herd , but for quality is unusual . We recently had the pleasure of inspecting the herd and found a litter by the Lovejoy boar , Majestic Baron , out of a daugh ;...

THE HIGHWAYS OF PROG HESS ( Continued from Page Four . ) we have a large surplus for export , the price will be determined by the figure at which this can be disposed of abroad—will be fixed in the markets of the world by the adjustment of the world s supply and demand . So prices in all the markets of this country in the past have varied with the cable quotations from Liverpool . But the moment our surplus disappears or becomes Inconsiderable , our own requirements will have more influence upon prices , which will be made more and more In our own markets . We can see the change toward this , just as we can see the decline of exports and the Increase in home consumption . How Can We Pay for Enough Wheat ? When the speculative element in recent wheat prices is allowed for , there remains a considerable margin of permanent advance . The collapse of all artificial support leaves this unchanged . The same economic forces which have been at work for the last twenty-five years are still o...

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SPECIAL BARGAIN I am offering as a special bargain a quarter section of land in Pemiscot County , Mo . It is located two and one-half miles from Pascola , a flourishing little town at the junction of the Frisco and the St . Louis &amp;amp; Gulf R . R . CONDITION OF THE LAND It is all cut over land but there is considerable good timber that will pay well if cut and delivered at Pascola , where there is located the largest stave bolt factory in the south . There is a ready market for all the stave bolt lumber that can be found , TWO TRACTS This quarter section is divided into two pieces of eighty acres each by a drainage ditch which has been in operation for eight years . THE NORTH EIGHTY The north eighty is deadened and has five buildings that are now occupied by men who work at the saw mill only a few rods away . In addition there is one good store building that can be used to advantage as it will make a good dwelling or outbuilding . THE SOIL The soil is the rich , sandy loam c...

A New Year s Resolution . S . E . HENBY . ( Continued from January Issue . ) The next day with many other new students John was enrolled as a college student in the preparatory department . It would take him five years and a half to complete the course before him . He was then in his eighteenth year and the road seemed a long one before him . At first the regular college men paid but little attention to him . This was not surprising . He was a green mountain boy who as yet had not come to himself . The college world is one in which a man must win his place by actual work and worth . One day when the boys of his own class were guying him good naturedly one of them happened to turn back the lapel of his vest and laid bare a large V shaped badge cut of red flannel and securely fastened to the vest . Immediately they demanded to know the meaing of the badge . One said , 0 that is the heart of a mountain maiden which he had stolen before he came to college . At this sally all laughed . A...

THE HIGHWAYS OF PROGRESS . ( Continued from Page Thirty . ) wholly due to the opening , of new western lands , without which both acreage and production would have declined heavily . The wheat acreage of three rich , representative agricultural states in the older section of the country compares as follows : Decreased Wheat Acreage in Older States . Acres in 1882 . A . in 1907 . New York 772 , 400 416 , 1 , 00 Ohio 2 , 876 , 000 1 , 882 , 000 Michigan 1 , 985 , 000 878 , 000 On the other hand there were enormous additions of new and fertile land in the West and Southwest . The following table of wheat acreage in more recently occupied territory shows how we have been able to add 130 , 000 , 000 bushels to our product , while old lands were being withdrawn from wheat growing and the yield per acre of the best lands was falling : Increased Wheat Acreage in Newer States . States . Acres in 1882 . A . in 1907 . Minnesota 2 , 547 , 000 5 , 200 , 000 North and South Dakota 720 , 000 8 , 4...